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27 Jun

AI Is Changing the Way Enterprises Look at Trust: Deloitte & SAP Weigh In

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Whether you are creating or customizing an AI policy or reassessing how your company approaches trust, keeping customers’ confidence can be increasingly difficult with generative AI’s unpredictability in the picture. We spoke to Deloitte’s Michael Bondar, principal and enterprise trust leader, and Shardul Vikram, chief technology officer and head of data and AI at SAP Industries and CX, about how enterprises can maintain trust in the age of AI. Organizations benefit from trust First, Bondar said each organization needs to define trust as it applies to their specific needs and customers. Deloitte offers tools to do this, such as the…

27 Jun

Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed

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Dozens of civil rights organizations had been urging Democrats (some of whom had puzzlingly signed off on those changes) to sink the bill, arguing that the changes were both “immensely significant and unacceptable.”The new text, engineered to appease conservative lobbyists representing the interests of big business, omitted, for instance, a key section referencing “civil rights.” The deleted section aimed to prevent businesses from trafficking in people’s data “in a manner that discriminates in or otherwise makes unavailable the equal enjoyment of goods or services on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or disability.” For reasons that at…

27 Jun

AI Search: 5 New Ways to Search the Web

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Emerging AI-based search systems often leverage large language models to generate explanations, consolidate content from multiple sources or cogently summarize a selected web page. The AI search systems covered below vary as to when they deliver LLM-aided results (ranging from only when you request it to every time) and how much control you have over whether AI is used at all (ranging from no control to quite customizable search settings). Reader beware: The main issue with LLMs is the content may not always be 100% accurate. So go ahead and explore each of the five search systems listed, but make…

27 Jun

How to Migrate From MLFlow to neptune.ai

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MLflow proved to have many limitations that neptune.ai can address, providing better security, more robust collaboration tools, and a user-friendly interface. The migration is not as complex as you might think. neptune.ai developed solutions to ease this process. Your MLflow run logs can easily be exported to the neptune.ai app using a dedicated plugin. Use our MLflow vs neptune.ai API comparison table to migrate your training scripts faster. As an MLflow user, it is straightforward to adapt to neptune.ai’s UI. MLflow is a framework widely used for its experiment-tracking capabilities, but many organizations are searching for alternatives. It is often…

26 Jun

Meet CARMEN, a robot that helps people with mild cognitive impairment

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Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation-a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to improve memory, attention, and executive functioning at home. Unlike other robots in this space, CARMEN was developed by the research team at the University of California San Diego in collaboration with clinicians, people with MCI, and their care partners. To the best of the researchers' knowledge, CARMEN is also the only robot that teaches compensatory cognitive strategies to help improve memory and executive function. "We wanted to make sure we were providing meaningful and…

26 Jun

Researchers develop new training technique that aims to make AI systems less socially biased

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An Oregon State University doctoral student and researchers at Adobe have created a new, cost-effective training technique for artificial intelligence systems that aims to make them less socially biased. Eric Slyman of the OSU College of Engineering and the Adobe researchers call the novel method FairDeDup, an abbreviation for fair deduplication. Deduplication means removing redundant information from the data used to train AI systems, which lowers the high computing costs of the training. Datasets gleaned from the internet often contain biases present in society, the researchers said. When those biases are codified in trained AI models, they can serve to…

26 Jun

Next platform for brain-inspired computing

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Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is one domain where human brains continue to dominate: energy efficiency. "The most efficient computers are still approximately four orders of magnitude -- that's 10,000 times -- higher in energy requirements compared to the human brain for specific tasks such as image processing and recognition, although they outperform the brain in tasks like mathematical calculations," said UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering Professor Kaustav Banerjee, a world…

26 Jun

Robots face the future

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Researchers have found a way to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This brings with it potential benefits to robotic platforms such as increased mobility, self-healing abilities, embedded sensing capabilities and an increasingly lifelike appearance. Taking inspiration from human skin ligaments, the team, led by Professor Shoji Takeuchi of the University of Tokyo, included special perforations in a robot face, which helped a layer of skin take hold. Their research could be useful in the cosmetics industry and to help train plastic surgeons. Takeuchi is a pioneer in the field of biohybrid robotics, where biology…

25 Jun

Some Open Source Software Licences are Only ‘Open-ish,’ Says Thoughtworks

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It has been estimated 90% of organisations use some form of open source software, and if they needed to go and code it again themselves, it would cost USD $9 trillion. This makes open source a huge global economic resource. However, some tools have shifted to commercial models in recent times. After years of growth through developer contribution and widespread uptake among users, they are monetising the end result — often to the chagrin of developer communities and dependent business users. Global technology consultancy Thoughtworks identified the trend in its most recent Technology Radar. Australian Chief Technology Officer, Scott Shaw,…

25 Jun

The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling

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This week, New York City’s comptroller published a similar audit of the city’s ShotSpotter system showing that only 13 percent of the alerts the system generated over an eight-month period could be confirmed as gunfire. The auditors noted that while the NYPD has the information necessary to publish data about ShotSpotter’s accuracy, it does not do so. They described the department’s accountability measures as “inadequate” and “not sufficient to demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool.”Champaign and Chicago have since canceled their contracts with Flock Safety and SoundThinking, respectively.“Raven is over 90 percent accurate at detecting gunshots with around the same…